Innovative Congregations

Rev. Ella Dorsey (center) and Maria Hill, Director of the A.D. Lewis Center, (far left) lead Heart and Sole strength training at the first session of “Girls on the Run,” an enrichment program for Middle School age girls that is part of the Fairfield Communities Ministries Project in Huntington, WV.

Developing Disciples: Resources for Disciple-making Pathways

Lay Mobilization Institute

is an 18-month Lay Mobilization Institute process, a church can build a team of spiritual leaders who assess their church and community to build a discipleship system that will foster transformation.Learn More

Evangelism

The work of evangelism and congregational development is to intentionally widen the reach of individual Christians and the church in sharing this good news.Learn More

Choosing the Faithful Path

Since every church is located in some type of transition, every local church is encouraged to study their congregation’s potential.Learn More

Spiritual Formation

Spiritual formation is a “process of being conformed to the image of Christ for the sake of others”Learn More

The 2400: Reaching People for Christ!

Natural Church Development

focuses on increasing the quality of a church rather than on numerical growth goals. This emphasis on church health has proven to be the key to ongoing growth and multiplication.Learn More

First UMC Buckhannon meets their neighbors at First Fridays. Furry friends are always welcome!

The West Virginia Conference Evangelism team helped host a block party at Five Loaves and Two Fishes in McDowell County.

¶ 122.The Process for Carrying Out Our Mission

We make disciples as we:

-proclaim the gospel, seek, welcome and gather persons into the body of Christ;

-lead persons to commit their lives to God through baptism by water and the spirit and profession of faith in Jesus Christ;

-nurture persons in Christian living through worship, the sacraments, spiritual disciplines, and other means of grace, such as Wesley’s Christian conferencing;

-send persons into the world to live lovingly and justly as servants of Christ by healing the sick, feeding the hungry, caring for the stranger, freeing the oppressed, being and becoming a compassionate, caring presence, and working to develop social structures that are consistent with the gospel; and

-continue the mission of seeking, welcoming and gathering persons into the community of the body of Christ.